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After the incident of Earl Lucca's totem going out of control, Daddy and uncle Carrion's received an invitation from His Highness Yvone to come to his castle. And now I have arrived at the castle whose exterior buildings I have only seen once together with Vio when we asked His Highness Yvone to help daddy and uncle Carrion. Daddy allowed me to come to the castle.
Because His Highness Yvone only wanted to talk to uncle Carrion's and Daddy, so I was only invited to wait in the living room together with this choco kid, crown prince Kharel!.
I looked at the table and saw only one thing. Everything is covered in chocolate!. Chocolate candy, chocolate cookies, chocolate cake, chocolate macaron, chocolate bread, and many more chocolate.
Why is there only chocolate on this table? No!. No!. Why did he provide this on the table?. Obviously all of this is intended for guests, but because the only person sitting here as a guest is me, so all of this is for me?!. He prepared these chocolate-smelling things especially for me?. Why?!.
Is this choco kid really a chocolate maniac?!.
"Prince... do you like chocolate too?"
"Hm. Yes. Why?. Oh, yeah ... you have to remember. You should call me Cro-wn-Prin-ce!. Why did you forget?!"
"But, isn't the crown prince His Highness Yvone?"
"What is the crown prince?. If he's the crown prince, he should be in the palace, not in this ugly, small castle on the edge of a dirty lake!"
"O-oh. Okay. Crown prince..." I said. It's better for me to follow the will and what this choco kid says. It's better to swim with the current than against the current. I could be swept away.
"Hm!. Good!"
For a moment, the atmosphere returned to silence.
"Wh-why don't you eat everything on this table?!"
"Eh? Oh. Cellia shouldn't eat a lot of chocolate. Dad will be angry"
"Tsk!. Just eat one!"
"U-um" Because I didn't know what to do, I started looking around and started choosing what was on the table and then I was attracted to one thing. It was a chocolate cake that looked soft and sweet, so I took a piece of the chocolate cake.
I tried eating it and it turns out this is the taste I like!.
"How does it flavor?" Crown Prince Kharel asked.
"So Nice!" I answered very honestly and innocently like a normal child.
"Heeh. So, Yvone succeeded in making the chocolate experiment go well with cake, huh?" Crown Prince Kharel muttered. He remembered that early this morning he was given a bowl of melted chocolate he had brought from the Yvone laboratory.
Meanwhile I was busy eating this chocolate cake, and of course I also heard Crown Prince Kharel's muttering about His Highness Yvone's experiment.
"Who made this cake, crown prince Kharel?" I asked curiously. What makes this chocolate cake really His Highness Yvone?.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Why?. I can't know?"
"O-of course you can..." answered crown prince Kharel. This time he looked cat shy.
"The one who made the cake was me..." he continued.
"Eh?. The crown prince made it?. Isn't it Your Highness Yvone?"
"No!. Yvone just helped me a little by making chocolate on top of the cake"
"Really?. The chocolate is delicious!. How do I make it?!" Suddenly I became very enthusiastic about how to make this delicious chocolate cake even though I was trying to guess that this cake must not have been made purely by the crown prince. He must have asked the palace chef for help to make it, right?.
"I'm-I only know how to make cakes, but if you want to see where the chocolate is made, you just need to go to Yvone's laboratory in the opposite room."
"Can Cellia see it?!"
"Oh-of course ... you can. But before that, how does the cake taste?!. You just said about the chocolate. How the cake?. That is delicious?!"
"The cake is delicious too!" I said. I think the crown prince Kharel is really someone who really likes competition and likes winning.
"Hm. Okay. Come on follow me ..."
We went to a room where His Majesty Yvone made chocolate. Laboratory room!.
Why does he make things like that dish in the laboratory and not in the kitchen?. I think so hard for this.
After walking quite a distance through the open hall in the middle of the castle, we finally arrived at a building which was located separately from the main castle building. This separate building looks older than the castle itself. But as soon as I entered, I saw many things that caught my attention and interest. I felt like I had entered an alchemist's room!.
Wow!. Amazing laboratory room!.
"Remember. Don't touch anything, or you will be scolded by Yvone..." said the crown prince. He slightly remembered the incident where he broke a small bottle in this lab and Yvone looked at him very coldly and with a murderous aura. Since then, he never left go to this lab building if you don't need it.
When I heard the crown prince warning me. He said with a normal face but I noticed the fear in his voice and somehow I could feel the fear. I got goosebumps myself when I heard about the reason why His Majesty Yvone easily cut down Lady Helia just because he didn't like something Lady Helia said. It made His Hughness Yvone appear heartless and cold-blooded. So. If you don't want to see a scary monster, don't try to provoke its anger. Right?.
I started exploring this room then I found something that caught my eye near the open window.
I saw a shiny object on the floor illuminated by sunlight from the open window. It was a silver ring with a purple diamond stone. I thought it was amethyst stone?.
I approached the object and picked it up. It turned out that it was indeed a ring set with an amethyst stone.
But, is this a ring for women?. The size is small...
"Why are you there?" Said the crown prince who slowly approached me.
"What is this?" I asked the crown prince. Maybe he knows something about the ring that fell on the floor?.
The crown prince took the ring from my hand, then he frowned which means he too I don't know and I'm thinking. What is that?.
"Maybe this is one of Yvone's experimental inventions. Put it back in its place. Don't Touch it!. I told you not to touch anything here..."
"Cellia saw it on the floor!"
"Oh. Then the ring must have fallen?. Just put it down at this table" crown prince Kharel showed me a table that was even taller than my head and his head.
but I still tried it. Maybe my hand could reach it, but what a shame. Even though I had tiptoed my feet, I still couldn't reach the table to put the ring back in its original place.
"You shorty!. Give it to me!"
Crown prince Kharel took the ring from my hand and placed it on the table. But he really can't. It turns out it's the same. Being only a little taller than me, of course he couldn't reach the table either.
Pfft!.
I stifled a laugh.
"Is there something funny?!"
"The crown prince is also short..." I said.
The crown prince's face turned red. He must have been very embarrassed because he felt he was taller than me and could reach the table which in fact he couldn't reach either.
"I'm still growing, you know!"
"Cellia too still growing!"
For a moment we stared at each other annoyed, until finally crown prince Kharel seemed to get an idea.
"Hey, I have an idea. Hold this and you have to put it on the table.
"Cellia couldn't do it because the table was too high!"
"So I have an idea, you idiot!. You have to climb on my shoulders. Hurry up. Yvone will be here soon!" Said the crown prince as he squatted down so I could climb on his shoulders as a step so I could get to the table.
I understood the crown prince's meaning and climbed on his shoulders with difficulty.
"Be careful!" he said.
Even without being asked, I will be careful your stuppid!. I'm more worried about you not being able to balance holding my body weight!. But I'm still small. My weight should still be light, right?.
Hup!.
I put the ring back with happy feeling.
"He-hey. Are you ready yet?!. What's taking you so long!. Come down quickly!" shouted the crown prince. His tone sounded like fear.
I was just about to get off his shoulders, but because the crown prince kept moving, I couldn't move for fear of falling. I could only hold on to the edge of the table while catching a glimpse of what was making this boy keep moving!?.
Hush!. Hush!
A small black cat appeared to be approaching the crown prince.
"Don't come here, you stupid cat!" shouted the crown prince. He looked very scared, but I who was on his shoulders was also very scared!.
I could fall!.
"D-don't move!. Cellia is going down!" I said. My face must have turned pale with fear too by now.
Somebody help me!.
Unfortunately, no one heard my unspoken screams. And in the end my grip on the edge of the table was released and my body fell.
Brak!.
Akh!.
Eh?. Wait-
This is Painless?.
"I was curious. I thought there was noise from cats and mice chasing each other, but it turns out you young lady ..."
I finally knew why I felt pain because it wasn't me who fell but only the crown prince Kharel, while I?. I was in His Highness Yvone's arms because he managed to catch me before I fell to the floor.
"That was very dangerous. What are you doing here, Young Lady?" Her Highness Yvone asked.
"S-she said she wanted to see where you make chocolate, so I brought her in here!" Said the crown prince who actually answered His Highness Yvone's question for me.
I think he quickly came up with an excuse because he was afraid that His Highness Yvone would be angry with us for going to his place.
"Hmmm?"
His Highness Yvone just cleared her throat and looked at me. I knew it was a look probing whether what crown prince Kharel said was true or a lie.
"I see... you're curious about how the chocolate on top of the chocolate cake you're eating is made, hm?" He said while wiping my lips and cheeks with his fingers.
Wait, how does he know I just ate the cake?. and what did he do with my lips and cheeks?!.
"Do you like chocolate cake, Young Lady?. Look at all the crumbs on your cheeks and mouth," said His Yvone, which made me realize what he was doing.
He looked at me with an excited look as if he was looking at a cute doll. He didn't even stop smiling!.
I ate the cake in a mess!. Ugh.! This is embarrassing!. Why didn't I realize?!.
"Okay. Come on out. This place is dangerous for you all. There are a lot of poisonous materials here..." said His Highness Yvone.
He put me down from his arms and then I followed crown prince Kharel out, but I realized something that His Highness Yvone was looking at the ring with the amethyst stone that I put on the table earlier with a terrible gaze as if the amethyst stone was a monster that she had to kill.
"So, what ring is that?. Why is he looking at the ring like that?" I think.
But suddenly a thought crossed my head with the simple thoughts of a child.
"Could it be that ... that is the ring he will give me when we get engaged when I grow up?!"